Just a reminder – we offer custom IDML / IDMLlib workshops.
So if you think about IDML and need a project kickoff or just a detailed presentation of the capabilities of IDML and IDMLlib do not hesitate to book us.
Right now we offer a special deal: Order a workshop and get a rebate on IDMLlib licenses.
Thank you very much for everyone who is trying out our nifty virtual machine package.
With this machine you get a pre configured Ubuntu to try out the IDMLlib.
Be it either with Java and Tomcat or php and the php-JavaBridge or now also with Jruby.
One of our customers is using this and it’s working pretty slick.
Right now there are no examples for this but we will give some sample code as soon as possible.
So welcome Ruby on Rails devs – join in the IDML fun.
Please use our usual formular to order your virtual applicance package.
For everyone who want to test IDMLlib with the php JavaBridge but encountered some problems in settings this up I created an OVF (Open Virtualisation Format) package.
The package comes with an Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Server, Tomcat6, Apache2, php-javabridge and some other goodies.
Completely free of charge of course – just fill out the formular on http://idmllib.com and specify OVF in the commentary.
Or once the form is updated choose OVF. You will get a download link and an evaluation code for the IDMLlib.
So if you got a virtualisation solution that can import OVF packages your IDMLlib experience is just a few clicks away.
If you have any questions or suggestions please do not hesitate to contact us!
This is just a simple working example to access all Text Frames in a document.
Of course you might want to do something with it so I did not stop just outputting this but added a lib to create an ODT file.
ODT is part of the Open Document Format family so you can open it with Openoffice and also with MS Word 2007 SP2+.
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The FHCon GmbH is pleased to announce the release of the IDMLlib 1.1
The IDMLlib is a Java library that makes working with InDesign® IDML files easier than ever.
By providing a simple but powerful interface to all information inside an IDML file, the IDMLlib allows programmers to extract, modify and create new content without the hassle to learn the complete IDML specification but to keep everything compatible with InDesign®
Programmers are now able to to create or compose new IDML documents from existing content, without even seeing any XML, by just using standard Java syntax.
Whether you want to export InDesign® compatible Snippets from your Content Management System, create a custom IDML Marketing Portal or develop a webbased IDML translation workflow, the IDMLlib technology will reduce the expense and allows a shorter time to market for your solution.
Further information about the IDMLlib can be obtained using the following links
The delivery of the IDMLlib 1.1 starts on June 25th, existing customers will be notified how to obtain the new release.
In version 1.0 there has only been support for container-based IDML document (.idml), which has been represented by the de.fhcon.idmllib.api.elements.Document object. As outlined in our first IDMLlib article, snippets support was one of the major features for the next IDMLlib release. Besides the obvious InDesign-Snippet (.idms) we support InCopy-Assignment (.icma) and InCopy-Markup-Language (.icml) files. For more information about different IDML files types see this article from Adobe’s Heath Lynn.
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Since we did have a couple of requests by PHP coders to work with IDML, IDMLlib and PHP we took a look at the PHP JavaBridge Project on Sourceforge.
To make a long story short – it seems to work ok :-) We will try out some more complex examples to see how stable everything is.
Here is my recipe to make IDMLlib for Java work with apache2, tomcat6, java6 and php5.
Updates for this article:
2010-08-29:
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One of the most asked questions of our customers is: “Is the IDMLlib able to import Snippets (.idms) into IDML documents?”. Fortunately we have been able to answer this question with yes since the very first IDMLlib 1.1 milestones. But until now this has been a very source code intensive task. I will show you later how easy it is with the current build using our new IDMLlib-Utility-Framework. But let me first explain what’s the idea behind snippets and what it needs to import the snippet. (more…)
In late 2009 we announced the availability of an IDMLlib for .NET in 2010. The current requests for a .NET version are unfortunately not justifying to develop a native .NET implementation. Because we don’t want to disappoint you, we started to investigate a way of converting the Java library into a .NET version. After some modifications to the Java library, we are now able to convert the Java library into a .NET library.